{"podcast":{"title":"CoStar News Hotels","slug":"costar-news-hotels-6474204","podcast_index_feed_id":6474204,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/hotel-news-now","website_url":"https://www.costar.com/hotelnews","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GTi1EFxDmVrHYSMLXYu_U_7Gs5nLxMhIFquYlvZwuDE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNzQw/OGY1NTRlZDRkMThj/MmVmNzAyMTMwMmRm/Zjc4NS5qcGc.jpg","author":"CoStar News Hotels","episode_count":242,"summary":"CoStar News Hotels' experienced, award-winning journalists bring diverse perspectives and voices to the news. From exclusive interviews with CEOs, to conference news from around the world, to coverage of public hotel companies, our stories are accessible for free 24/7 to inform your business today and in the future. CoStar News Hotels is part of the global CoStar News team, which reports commercial real estate news from all over the United States, Canada and the U.K.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204"},"episode":{"title":"How Japan moneyballed its way to strong tourism demand","slug":"how-japan-moneyballed-its-way-to-strong-tourism-demand","published_at":"2026-05-06T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204/how-japan-moneyballed-its-way-to-strong-tourism-demand","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e19bc93","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/6e19bc93/2a3f5996.mp3","summary":"When Japan lost more than half of its travelers from China, many worried the year's long stretch of strong performance for hotels would end in that country. Instead, it replaced that demand in the aggregate. Listen for that and other highlights from across the Asia Pacific region with STR's Matthew Burke and Jesper Palmqvist.","meta_description":"When Japan lost more than half of its travelers from China, many worried the year's long stretch of strong performance for hotels would end in that countr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1765,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/costar-news-hotels-6474204/episodes/how-japan-moneyballed-its-way-to-strong-tourism-demand/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204/how-japan-moneyballed-its-way-to-strong-tourism-demand.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}